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PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - Feb 13 Feb 13th 2013, 01:27 Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:27pm EST Feb 13 (Reuters) - Headlines Comcast $16.7 bln buyout of NBCUniversal Jenkins sets out Barclays reinvention Kengeter to leave UBS Veteran dealmaker to retire from Goldman Italian police arrest Finmeccanica chief Apple downplays Einhorn suit as 'sideshow' Major Dell investor joins chorus against buyout US approves $18 bln CNOOC bid for Nexen Overview Comcast Corp said it would buy General Electric's remaining 49 percent equity stake in their NBCUniversal joint venture for about $16.7 billion. Barclays' new chief executive pledged a fresh course for the British lender, axing at least 3,700 jobs and pruning its investment bank as he seeks to rebuild its reputation and boost profitability after a series of scandals. Carsten Kengeter, UBS's former investment bank chief executive, will leave in a management overhaul of the Swiss bank's newly formed non-core unit, according to an internal memo. Goldman Sachs is set to lose one of its veteran dealmakers with the retirement of Henry Cornell as vice-chairman of its merchant banking division, according to an internal memo. Italian police arrested the head of defence group Finmeccanica SpA on Tuesday on a warrant alleging that he paid bribes to win an Indian contract. Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple Inc, said the company was considering ways to return its $137 billion cash pile to investors. Cook dismissed the lawsuit filed by activist shareholder David Einhorn as a "silly sideshow". Dell Inc's third-largest shareholder, T. Rowe Price Group, joined a growing number of investors putting pressure on Michael Dell and his partner Silver Lake to sweeten their $24.4 billion buyout offer for the PC maker. U.S. regulators have approved the $15.1 billion takeover of Canadian oil and gas company Nexen Inc by China's state-owned CNOOC Ltd Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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